Re: [cobalt-users] WARNING: Cobalt FTP directory work-around

[WayneB6094@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 3/22/00 2:26:33 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

> If you change the /etc/passwd file to show a particular directory as the
>  user's directory, then the directory will be deleted when the user is
>  deleted.  The program that deletes the directory is running as root; it
>  doesn't look at or care about directory ownership.

Okay, I'll buy that.  But I never was suggesting or even discussing changing 
ANY file on the RaQ.  I was merely suggesting that "/web" was a shorter 
version of "../../web" for placement in the appropriate field (Initial Remote 
Host Directory) in the FTP client so that the user would be taken to the 
directory of the main web site upon login.  

Apparently someone combined or confused that response with somebody else's 
message regarding modifying the /etc/passwd file or something.